First Five Minutes of Hostel: Part II Playing with Bug

Lionsgate has announced that audiences will soon have the opportunity to view five minutes of Hostel: Part II. The first five minutes of Eli Roth's highly anticipated sequel will be playing on every print of Bug, which debuts in theaters on May 25th.

Last January, writer/director Eli Roth terrified moviegoers with the blood-drenched Hostel, which catapulted to the top of the box office charts and became the first Number One film of 2006. One year later, Roth takes us back to where it all began, and deeper into the darkest recesses of the human mind.

In Hostel: Part II, three young Americans studying art in Rome set off for a weekend trip when they run into a beautiful model from one of their classes. Also on her way to an exotic destination, the gorgeous European invites the coeds to come along, assuring them they will be able to relax and rejuvenate.

Will the girls find the oasis they are looking for? Or are they poised to become victims for hire, pawns in the fantasies of the sick and privileged from around the world who secretly travel here to savor more grisly pursuits?

With Hostel, Eli Roth cemented the cutting-edge credentials he earned with his debut feature Cabin Fever (2002). In Hostel: Part II, Roth invites fans to take another frightening trip where suppressed urges - once unleashed - have chilling consequences.

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A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband. But when Agnes begins a tentative romance with Peter, an eccentric, nervous drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again - until the first bugs arrive...

Probing the blurry lines between paranoia and nightmarish reality, Liongate's Bug is an intense, mind-bending psychological thriller in which nothing is quite as it seems. Directed by Academy Award winner William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist) and adapted by Tracy Letts from his hit off-Broadway play, Bug stars Golden Globe nominee Ashley Judd, Harry Connick, Jr., Lynn Collins, Brian O'Byrne and Michael Shannon.